Innocent Flower Girl/Playing With

  • Main
  • All Subpages
  • Create New


    Basic Trope: An adorable, sweet girl who makes a living by selling flowers... and who has a high mortality rate.

    • Straight: Violet is The Cutie who stands on the corner with a basket of flowers, always smiling shyly as she offers her wares to anyone interested.
    • Exaggerated: Not only is Violet almost Sickeningly Sweet, she's actually battling an Incurable Cough of Death.
    • Justified: Violet is a homeless person who isn't exactly qualified for any other kind of job.
    • Inverted: A girl who sells flowers...and is a Dark Action Girl verging on Complete Monster.
    • Subverted: Violet sells flowers for a living, but is sarcastic, street-smart and cynical.
      • Violet seems to sell flower, but it's a different kind of flower she sells...
    • Double Subverted: ...However, that's just a Jerkass Facade she's honed to survive on the streets. Anyone who actually befriends her discovers a sweet, shy and gentle soul.
      • The flowers are still sweet smelling and uses them to help others
    • Parodied: As soon as another character buys a flower from Violet, she morphs into a smarmy used car salesman, trying to upsell like crazy. And she's not above whipping out the Incurable Cough of Death to squeeze every last penny out of the poor sucker.
    • Deconstructed: We see all kind of shit that Violet went through daily as part of being a flower girl. From heartless kids ruining her wares, to low to non-existent sales, to being gangraped by local thugs and their dogs.
    • Reconstructed: Despite all these, she's as pure as the fresh lilies that she sells. And she's not a Stepford Smiler, either.
    • Zig Zagged: ???
    • Averted: Violet does not sell flowers, or isn't dying.
    • Enforced: "We need a heartwarming moment right here, because the Hero just lost his whole family. This Innocent Flower Girl ought to inspire him to keep going."
    • Lampshaded: "Lemme guess, you have cancer, right?"
    • Invoked: "C'mon, I'm cute as a baby panda, and I have a terminal illness. Nobody's going to say no to me!"
    • Defied: "I am not going out there to sell flowers! It is beneath me."
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???
    • Played For Laughs: There are two Innocent Flower Girls, who engage in a price war. Hilarity Ensues.
    • Played For Drama: Violet's flowers are the only source of income for her household, a rag-tag collection of orphans and street urchins she's taken under her wing despite her illness. If anything were to happen to her, the kids would be left without a protector and vulnerable to the uncaring guards sweeping them all off to the Orphanage of Fear.

    Wouldn't you like to buy some mums from an Innocent Flower Girl, suh? Tuppence a blossom!

    This article is issued from All The Tropes. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.